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Twenty Second Annual Darwin College Lecture Series 2007

IDENTITY

Lecture 2   :   26 January

VISUALISING IDENTITY

Ludmilla Jordanova

King's College London

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Biography

Ludmilla Jordanova is Professor of Modern History at King's College, London. She worked previously at the Universities of Cambridge, East Anglia, York, Essex and Oxford. Decades ago she read Natural Sciences at Cambridge, falling in love with history and philosophy of science in her second and third years. Her doctorate was on the natural philosophy of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. From the late 1970s onwards she has sought to integrate images and objects into her historical work, and in the 1980s took a master's degree in Art History and Theory while teaching History at the University of Essex. She has been a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London since 2001. Her books include Sexual Visions (1989), Nature Displayed (1999), Defining Features (2000) and History in Practice (2000 and in a second revised edition 2006). She is currently working on a book for CUP about historians' uses of visual and material culture.

The lectures are given at 5.30 p.m. in The Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, with an adjacent overflow theatre with live TV coverage. Each lecture is typically attended by 600 people so you must arrive early to ensure a place.